Toledo Museum Celebrates Glass Anniversary - What's old is new again: Original glass furnace reconstructed - Toledo - Ohio - USA
Fifty years to the day after the first glass furnace fired up at the Toledo Museum of Art, three artists-in-residence recreated it—brick by brick—to reflect the spirit of early pioneers of the American Studio glass Movement. “Today, we take the glass furnace and studio for granted,”
said Jeff Mack, TMA’s glass studio manager. “You can walk into a studio with only a bag of your favorite tools and start making glass. + info: http://artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54486&b=glass

Rehabilitation Of The Antigua Alcoholera Extremeña / GAP Arquitectos 2009 - Badajoz - Spain
The project of the Museum of the Wine in Almendralejo (Badajoz) poses and assumes the duality that exists in the process of elaboration of the wine. Science and art, system and chance, technical and inspiration are the opposites that build, in a mysterious, magic, almost
miraculous way, a fine wine. + info: http://www.archdaily.com/221645/rehabilitation-of-the-antigua-alcoholera-extremena-gap-arquitectos/

Two Flown-in-Space IMAX Cameras Donated - Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum - Washington D.C. - USA
Two IMAX cameras that flew aboard the space shuttle became part of the Smithsonian collection today. From 1984 to 1998, two-dimensional IMAX cameras accompanied astronauts on 17 space shuttle missions. These 70-mm large-format cameras, operated by astronauts,
captured visually stunning views of Earth from space and offered an up-close look at what it is like to live and work in a weightless environment. + info: http://www.nasm.si.edu/events/pressroom/releaseDetail.cfm?releaseID=287

66th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians
10 April - 14 April 2013
Buffalo, New York State. United States of America
Organizers: The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH)
Contact: info@sah.org
DEADLINE: 1 jun 2012
+ info: http://www.sah.org

Publications

Imperial Outpost in the Gulf: The Airfield at Sharjah (United Arab Emirates) 1932-1952 by Nicholas Stanley-Price
ISBN: 978-1846246845
Publisher: Book Guild Limited (29 April 2012)
In 1932 the Sharjah airfield was created out of nothing in the open desert, an overnight stop on Imperial Airways' route carrying mail and passengers to India and eventually to Australia. The British government drew upon the RAF's experience in the Middle East to build a fortified
rest house there, for fear of possible attacks from the Beduin. Air travel then was a luxury beyond most people's means. But passengers in transit praised the comfort of the Rest House in the desert. Imperial Airways switched during the 1930s to using flying-boats that landed on the
creek at Dubai, a move that favoured Dubai's emergence as a commercial hub. Then, during WWII, the airfield became a transit point for troops going to India and the Far East. For RAF and American air force personnel, a posting to Sharjah made the heart sink as it was notorious
for its extreme heat, isolation and poor rations.
The history of Sharjah airfield is central to the story of the modern Emirates. In this meticulous account, Nicholas Stanley-Price brings the past vividly to life, using an impressive array of unpublished contemporary photographs and
records, and fascinating stills from documentary footage shot at Sharjah in the 1930s.
+ info: http://www.iccrom.org/eng/news_en/2012_en/field_en/03_14publicationStanley-Price.pdf